Jonathan...I don't have any personal experience with AT's...but the wheel you picked looks hot. Great finish, maybe a little hard to clean...but not much different than most. Rivits look great...just ask Winston...but can be a drag to clean at times. I found a link for everyone so if they wanted to check them out and give their opinions.

In the june issue of Car adn Driver the TireRack advertisement has the Car of the Month for 2003 as a 2002 S4 with the 19" AT Italia Flash Sport Wheels...the car is red, but it still looks hot...basically the same as what you are looking for...same car and everything. When I looked up the specific wheel on www.tirerack.com...and looked at the closeup section...and they had the wheels on a silver Passat B5.5....also looked hot. I think they are a great choice...especially from the picture Jay was able to link above.

Yes, that was my first choice from what I saw on the site, but they are also on back order and more expensive (ok, not a lot, but still more..). Talking about new tires and then surfing the web and looking at all the great stuff has me itching to get a new set :wink:

I ordered the AT Italia Flash sports. Just got the 17" wheels since I really didn't mind the way the stock 17"s looked. Plus (again) cost of bigger wheels and tires and possibly slightly harsher ride. Thanks all for the comments, hopefully will get the wheels in the next week or so

Jonathan, I like those wheels, but I wanted to pass along a caution that I was given when I wanted some Rivas.

Make sure they are not too heavy. I seem to recall that AT Italia made heavy wheels and in the case of the wheels I originally wanted (AT ITalia Rivas) the metal was prone to dents and going out of round, so I ended up going with another brand...

We installed them yesterday evening. Took my bro 2 hours to get them installed because 2 of the 4 stock Avus wheels were rusted onto the hub. Had to make a trip to AutoZone for some rust spray.

Any way, can I just say the S4 front brakes are huge? I didn't realize how close they came to the spokes of both the stock Avus and now these. The wheels look very nice! The spokes are the dark satin silver finish and the lip is polished. They stick out of the fender wells just a bit. Not sure how the tires did in the rain, but he should be set for Saturday (weather permitting).

I like the way they look They do stick out more than the stock Avus wheels did, but not TOO far out.. Tires seem fine so far, but haven't done much driving on them yet! I can say, that the wheel / tire set up is definitely not light weight, didn't weigh them, but not light hehe